cataplasm

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By midnight Reardon lay in a comfortable room, a huge cataplasm fixed upon him, and other needful arrangements made.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George

If peeled and pounded in a mortar, uncooked Potatoes applied cold make a very soothing cataplasm to parts that have been scalded, or burnt.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

Some of the leaves and small branches are pounded, and applied in that state as a cataplasm to both arms; the skin having been previously scarified freely above the elbows.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

It will be easier to bear than the cataplasm I should have given you, had your apprehensions been well founded.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

With this fragrant herb she made a cooling cataplasm.

From The Purple Land by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)